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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Guidelines for national courts on how to estimate the share of overcharge which was passed on to the indirect purchaser · European Union

| (88) | When employing the comparator-based method, one would ideally compare the price or margin during the infringement period with the exact same market absent the infringement. However, it is naturally not possible to know exactly how a market would have evolved in the absence of an infringement. For instance, it may be the case that important factors affecting the prices set by the direct purchaser, such as changes in demand or prices of other inputs, will not have a similar impact on prices during the infringement period and in the counterfactual scenario.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.